Pete Thomas should be congratulated for Eurochat - can't imagine
why I didn't download it before. - But Pete - it needs a function
to be able to copy selected sections of text to the clipboard, I can
only do it in Paradox....
Anyway, to get back to my pet subject of the moment - 0R5 - Not
much response to my posting the other day. I looked up the
subject in Eurochat and there it was - from Bill W-Wynne, 28/9/96 -
outrigger collapse - he said:
>Peter Davis wrote:
>
>>I hear a bit about this rather alarming/embarassing/expensive occurrence.>
>>Does
>>anyone know how often this happens or has it only been once which is being
>>repeated?
>
>skids ........
I find it rather alarming that one should have to rely on gravity
to drop the outriggers. In fact I don't believe they were
designed for this to have to be the case, but there may be a
production error, but in the normal course of events it isn't
noticed. (see my earlier posting) The point is here is that I think
that if the slot in OR5 was a little shorter (2mm or so) then they
would be FORCED to come down and lock with flap deployment,
notwithstanding anything reasonable like a bit of speed, a spring
break, or some stiffness in the mechanism if it got bashed or
something, perhaps on takeoff.
However....It may be a problem of just our aircraft - does anyone
else have this problem?
Regards;
Richard Meredith-Hardy
rmh@flymicro.win-uk.net Tel: 01462 834776 FAX: 01462 732668
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